ぎり – Vocabulary details

ぎり

Meanings

Adjective (の)

Noun

1. duty; sense of duty; honor; honour; decency; courtesy; debt of gratitude; social obligation

もともと、この三さん人にんを助たすける義ぎ理りはないのだ。I was never under any obligation to help these three in the first place.

Adjective (の)

2. in-law; relation by marriage

正せい確かくには、彼かの女じょは義ぎ理りの妹いもうとだけどね。Well, technically she's my sister-in-law.

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

ぎ

り

Used in: 815

Composed of

ぎ

morality; righteousness; meaning; teachings; doctrine; nonconsanguineous relationship (i.e. of in-laws)

り

reason; principle; general principle (as opposed to individual concrete phenomenon); the underlying principles of the cosmos (in neo-Confucianism)

Used in vocabulary (19 in total)

ふぎり

neglect of one's social obligations; failure to perform one's social duties; dishonor; failure to pay back one's debt

ぎりがたい

possessed of a strong sense of duty

ぎりチョコ

obligation chocolate; chocolate given by women to male colleagues, etc. out of obligation on Valentine's day

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Examples (10 in total)

受うけ入いれるぎりはない。

There is no obligation to accept it.

ぎりの父ちち親おやとうまくいっている。

I am getting along well with my father-in-law.

彼かの女じょはぎりの妹いもうとなんです。

She is my sister-in-law.

これはぎりじゃなくて本ほん命めいだよ。

This isn't obligation chocolate; it's true-love chocolate.

トムはメアリーのぎりの息むす子こです。

Tom is Mary's son-in-law.

僕ぼくのぎりの弟おとうとになる子こだ。

That's the boy who will become my brother-in-law.

正せい確かくには、彼かの女じょはぎりの妹いもうとだけどね。

Well, technically she's my sister-in-law.

先せん週しゅうの水すい曜よう、ぎりの弟おとうとが亡なくなりました。

My brother-in-law passed away last Wednesday.

もともと、この三さん人にんを助たすけるぎりはないのだ。

I was never under any obligation to help these three in the first place.

帰かえる前まえに、ぎりとしてやっておくことにする。